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This page is a router rather than another service page. Find what is actually happening to your roof and go straight to the page that deals with it. Almost nobody arrives at a roofing site looking for a service — they arrive with a problem, so that is how this is organized.
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Address and what you are seeing. If the honest answer is that your roof has years left in it, that is what you will be told.
No obligation. The photo report is yours whether or not you hire us.
Eight situations, and where each one goes
Find yours on the left. If water is coming into the house right now, start at the top — and read the first step before you do anything else.
If water is coming in, do this before you call anyone
Electrical first. If water is anywhere near a ceiling light, a fan, a smoke detector or an outlet, switch that circuit off at the breaker panel — not at the wall switch, because reaching for a switch under a wet fixture is exactly what you are trying to avoid. Water tracks along wiring and through junction boxes, and this is the part of a roof leak that actually hurts people.
Then photograph everything before you move it, move contents out of the water path, and put a bucket with a towel in it under the drip. If a ceiling is bulging and holding water, a small controlled hole at the lowest point drains it into a bucket instead of dropping the whole section at once.
And do not get on the roof in the dark, the rain or wind. Everything genuinely useful you can do right now is done from inside the house.
Or start from what needs doing
Residential or commercial is decided by slope, not by who owns the building
A house has a steep-slope roof that sheds water in seconds, covered in overlapping shingles or interlocking panels. A commercial building mostly has a low-slope roof where water moves slowly toward drains and sits in the meantime, which needs a continuous membrane with sealed seams.
Different materials, different failure points, different safety equipment. Which is why a patio cover on a house is a low-slope roof even though the house is residential — worth saying before anyone quotes it as shingle work.
Written for homeowners, not for us
Eight guides that give you the criteria rather than the pitch. Take them to whoever you end up hiring.
Everything is indexed on Pflugerville roofing resources. Who you would be hiring is about The Pflugerville Roofing Company, coverage is on our roofing service area page, and you can get in touch here.
Six more questions, each with its own page
Prevention, hail, what it is like to live through a re-roof, and three different ways of asking the same question about who to hire.
Texas does not license roofing contractors
This is the most useful thing to know before you call anyone in this state, including us.
There is no statewide roofing contractor license in Texas. No exam, no classification, no board and no number to look up — which means “licensed and insured” carries far less weight here than most homeowners assume. The second half of that phrase is doing all the work and the first half is frequently doing none.
Three things that are actually checkable instead:
An insurance certificate sent to you directly by the insurer, not forwarded as a PDF by the contractor. General liability and workers’ compensation both. A certificate that arrives from the roofer is a document you cannot verify, and if somebody is injured on your roof without workers’ compensation behind them, that exposure has a way of finding the homeowner.
Manufacturer certification for the product being installed. In a state with no licensing ladder this is the closest available proxy, it is searchable by zip code on the manufacturer’s own website, and on premium products the warranty frequently depends on it. We install GAF, which is checkable that way rather than on a business card.
A real physical address. Not a PO box or a virtual suite. After a Central Texas hail event the market fills with operators who will not be reachable next spring, and an address is the cheapest thing to check.
And the line a contractor cannot cross on your claim
We document damage thoroughly, meet the adjuster on the roof, and repair to the approved scope. We do not negotiate or settle the claim, because acting as a public insurance adjuster is a licensed role in Texas and a contractor being paid for the repair should not hold it.
So if a contractor offers to handle your whole claim, or to cover, waive or absorb your deductible, that should end the conversation. In Texas the deductible offer is prohibited, and the usual mechanism is an inflated invoice to the carrier — which puts a false claim in your name rather than theirs. After a storm that offer circulates widely, at exactly the moment you are least able to think about it.
The whole sequence is on Roof insurance claim guide.
Before you call anyone
Where do I start if water is coming in right now?
Electrical first — if water is near a light fixture, fan or outlet, switch that circuit off at the breaker rather than using the wall switch. Then move contents, contain the drip, and photograph everything before you move it. Stabilizing the house and diagnosing the leak are two different visits, and a permanent repair cannot be done on a wet roof in the dark.
How do I know whether I need a repair or a replacement?
By having the roof walked and the attic looked at. Localised damage on a roof with life left in it repairs well and lasts; a roof that has gone brittle across the whole field will have patches chasing failures around it. Anyone answering that from the driveway is guessing.
Is a roofing contractor in Texas licensed?
No. Texas issues no statewide roofing contractor license, so there is no exam, no classification and no state board to check. That makes the phrase “licensed and insured” weaker here than most homeowners assume, and verification has to come from elsewhere: an insurance certificate sent directly by the insurer, manufacturer certification for the specific product being installed, and a real physical address.
Will you handle my insurance claim?
We document the damage thoroughly, meet the adjuster on the roof, and repair to the approved scope. We do not negotiate or settle the claim, because acting as a public insurance adjuster is a licensed role in Texas and a contractor being paid for the repair should not hold it. Any contractor offering to handle the whole claim, or to cover your deductible, is offering something they should not.
What is infrared leak detection actually for?
Finding trapped moisture that is not visible on the surface. Wet insulation and wet decking hold heat differently from dry material, so a thermal scan can show the extent of saturation rather than just the point where water appears inside. It is most useful on a leak that has been going on a while, or where the interior stain and the entry point are a long way apart.
Do you work outside Pflugerville?
Yes — Pflugerville, Austin and the surrounding Central Texas area. Coverage detail is on our roofing service area page, and if you are at the edge of it we will say so rather than quote a drive we cannot sustain.
Find out what your roof actually needs
We get on the roof where it is safe to walk it and into the attic underneath, photograph what we find, and send a written report — yours to keep, use for an insurance claim, or hand to another contractor for a competing quote. If the roof has years left in it, that is what the report will say.
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Serving Pflugerville, Austin and surrounding Central Texas. ESTIMATES: any figure discussed is for budgeting rather than quotation; a firm price requires someone on site, because roof size, pitch, height, access, decking condition and material all move it. Project durations are typical rather than guaranteed and depend on roof size, complexity, weather and material availability. Emergency availability depends on crew location, weather and call volume during a widespread storm event, and response times are not guaranteed. Product service lives and impact ratings are manufacturer specifications for the specific product and should be read on its documentation. Warranty terms are set by the manufacturer, vary by product and installer certification, and coverage, exclusions and transfer provisions should be read on the certificate itself rather than inferred from any summary. Infrared and thermal imaging indicate temperature differences consistent with trapped moisture; they are a diagnostic aid rather than a certainty, and findings are confirmed physically. HOA covenants and any applicable permitting are the property owner’s responsibility to confirm. Insurance coverage, deductible structure and covered perils vary by policy and carrier — read your declarations page. We are not a public insurance adjuster and do not adjust, negotiate or settle insurance claims; coverage decisions are made by you and your carrier. In Texas a contractor may not pay, waive, rebate or absorb a policyholder’s insurance deductible. Texas does not issue a statewide roofing contractor license; verify any roofer on insurance certificates sent directly by the insurer and on manufacturer certification for the specific product quoted. General information about construction practice, not legal, insurance or engineering advice.